In all seriousness. If I compared the number of people that we had bring us borked machines with mcafee or norton to those with borked machines and avast... No AV software is perfect but I would trust Avast over Norton (non corp) any day. While Symantecs corporate product is good, their desktop product is worthless. Avast's small frequent updates, boot-time pre-os scan and other functions make it one of the better av softs I've tried. Period
CW Sent via BlackBerry from Cingular Wireless -----Original Message----- From: "Anthony Q. Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 14:04:07 To:The Hardware List <[email protected]> Subject: RE: [H] Free or Cheap AV Software Have you tried the home/noncommerial version of avast? That logic might need some updating. ---- Thane Sherrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ============= At 08:44 PM 26/12/2006, - wrote: >ClamAV, freeware: I've read some bad stuff about ClamAV as well. Perhaps it has gotten better, but I look at it this way: Anti-virus - $49 per year, $4.08 per month, 0.14 per day. If your data is worth less than $0.14 per day than just go with no AV at all and be very careful. T
